Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control

What can case studies about the lived experiences of cancer contribute to an interest in the concept of structural vulnerability? And can a consideration of structural vulnerability enhance applied anthropological work in cancer prevention and control? To answer these questions the contributors in this volume explore what it means to be structurally vulnerable; how structural vulnerabilities intersect with cancer risk, diagnosis, care seeking, caregiving, clinical-trial participation, and survivorship; and how differing local, national, and global political contexts and histories inform vulnerability. These case studies illustrate how quotidian experiences of structural vulnerability influence and are altered by a cancer diagnosis at various points in the continuum of care. In examining cancer as a set of diseases and biosocial phenomena, the contributors extend structural vulnerability beyond its original conceptualization to encompass spatiality, temporality, and biosocial shifts in both individual and institutional arrangements.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826360319
• ISBN13: 9780826360311
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Unm Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 9.1"